Chap 7 On the way home (I)

Resting her head back to the seat after enjoying the beautiful view outside of the window, Yumi looked around the first class area. There were only 5 people including her in this session. She was the youngest among them and it seemed like all of them were businessmen. They all wore formal and most of them were working with their laptop since they were on this plane. If it was not because of the game console and DVD player on the plane, she would be bored to death already. After few hours, no game or film could please her so she decided to take a nap.

-YUMI'S DREAM-

There were three of them who were on the training at Fukuzawa's mansion. They were little kids from Bradford, Royard, and Kertia. At first the training was terrific since they could learn from the best swordsman in the area and they had chance to fight with some monster or at least catch some cute bears. Well that was what Seiya Royard, the eldest daughter of the family, enjoyed most. However, when the physical training was done, they were sent to the most boring lesson ever. Even though this was their last day here, Miki Fukuzawa still forced them spend the whole day to collect all the herbs and sort them into different categories so they could bring those herb back to England.

"Mou, Yumi chan. I'm done with this. I'm off now. Ja ne" A young blonde snorted in boring and flicked her finger toward her staff then it disappeared out of nowhere. She waved her hands while she walked away from her friends.

"Oy, Seiya." The young purple haired boy called out for his friend who already disappear from the rose bush. He looked apologetically at another little girl which was Yumi, and said, "Sorry, Yumi. I think this is enough then. We could make more next time we came here."

"Hai, Rajak." Little Yumi eagerly replied and earning a devilish smirk from her older friend. "Go ahead, Yumi. I'll bring them back " He told Yumi playfully while pointed to the unsorted herbs on the ground and finished his sentence with a wink, "don't let the Princess wait." Little Yumi blushed furiously and ran out of his sight immediately before getting anymore teasing from him.

-ooo-

"Come again. Why am I here?" Rajak asked the blonde next to him. They were hiding in the big bush near the gazebo and watching a young beautiful little girl who were sitting in the gazebo for a long time. It seemed she was waiting for someone.

"Shhhhh, wait and see." The voice was from no other than Seiya, she dragged him here right after Yumi left. Friend with Seiya Royard meant getting into trouble easily. But they have been friend since the day they were born so he always followed her spontaneous actions in order to help her in time. "OK. As long as you stay out of trouble this time. I don't care where you drag me to. I don't wanna take any wrath from Yumi." He sighed and defeated in front of his friend's excitement.

"Quick. Get Down!" Seiya pulled Rajak lower behind the bush and made some holes to observe the newcomer.

Yumi walked soundlessly behind the girl who was reading a book in the gazebo and covered her eyes by her little hands. She leaned over and whispered dearly in her ears "Guess. Who?"

"Hmp..." The girl forcefully closed her book and put it on her lap. She said sternly "You made me wait and now dare to play a little game."

"Err.." That was the only sound that came from Yumi. She quickly withdrew her hands and she could feel a couple of sweat drops literally fly off her forehead and thought inwardly, "Note to yourself. Never let the girl wait!"

Both Seiya and Rajak tried so hard to not burst into laughter. This scene was priceless because they could see their cute little friend face changed into different shade in record time. They had to use their hands to cover each other mouth.

"...sorry..I...had to finish my training so I'm late..." Yumi rambled on about how sorry she was because of letting her friend wait for a long time. She stepped over to face the girl and prepared for the worst scenarios.

However instead of seeing an angry pretty face, she only saw the raven haired girl giggled. It took several seconds for Yumi to realize that she was tricked. She kept stand still and speechless so the other girl said, "So if you still stand there like a stone, I'll presume that you don't wanna talk to me. Then I'll take my leave. Good day, Fukuzawa san" The girl stood up and started to walk away from the gazebo.

"Please. Wait, Sachiko." Yumi snapped out of her reveries immediately and quickly grabbed the girl wrist before she walk out of the place.

When Sachiko turned around, she had a self-satisfied smirk on her face. "Got you" Sachiko amusingly thought.

Somewhere behind the bush, there were two little stalkers gave thumbs up for Sachiko's action.

After Yumi could collect herself again. She nervously said, "I'll leave tomorrow. So..I..uhm.. I have something to tell you. But ... uhm ... I..."

Sachiko could feel the sadness in the younger girl tone. She cupped around Yumi's chin and lifted her face up so they could look in to each other eyes. "You can tell me anything, Yumi" Her smile made Yumi almost forget how to breath.

"Aw that scene was too adorable" was the thought of two stalker. They nodded unconsciously.

After two girls settled down on the bench in the gazebo. "So tell me" said Sachiko.

"Well, I...I haven't thanked for saving me the first time we met"

"Arg.. such a lame beginning" Both stalkers agreed with this thought.

Sachiko giggled. Yumi scratched her head and gave a weak smile. She had no idea how she could tell the girl in front of her about her feeling. To people in Orient, love between same sex was not included in their norm. She was afraid that Sachiko would hate her after her confession.

"Sachiko, promise me. You won't hate me after today." Yumi grabbed the girl hands and said in serious tone which helped her earn a nod from her princess.

"Sachiko, you saved me three months ago and we became friend since then. It's a short time but I...uhm...I think I like you."

-END DREAM-

Her dream was disturbed by someone's voice.

"Excuse me, miss"

Her eyes slowly opened because of that gentle voice.

"What's happened? Have we arrived yet?" Her voice still sounded sleepy. It took her few minutes to fully open her eyes. Meanwhile the flight attendant adored the cuteness of this passenger. Thus She gave her best smile to the girl.

"There were some problems with the engine so we had to land at HongKong international airport. We'll be here at least another 4 hours and all passenger cannot be here while we examine the air plane. Thus you should get to the waiting hall of the airport to wait. In the meantime you could have some drink then."

After that the woman moved to another session of the air plane to wake another sleeping guest. Yumi slowly stood up and started getting off the airplane. However, on the way to the entrance there was a shiny object that caught her eye. That was an old pocket watch. Yumi picked it up and put it in her pocket.

It took her 10 minutes to reach to the waiting hall. She found a coffee shop at the end of the hall and purchase a cup of Earl Grey for herself. She wanted something to refresh her mind. She had no idea why she had that dream. That was the happiest day of her life anyway. There was a faint pink tinge on her cheek when she remembered what had happened right after the end of her dream. She remembered that her love was accepted and they almost could share their very first kiss if it was not because of the disturbance form her two beloved childhood friend. However she still got the kiss on her cheek before her princess walk away. Hence Yumi unconsciously touched her left cheek and a smile was formed on her lips. Though they did share their proper first kiss, but that was the story of the few year after her first arrival in the Orient.

While she was enjoying her drink, she took the watch out off her pocket and started observing it. She was sure that this watch was handmade and she had to admit that the image which was craved on the watch was really beautiful.

"Whoever designed this watch must be very talented." She talked to herself when she sipped her tea while her eyes still glued on the watch.

"Thanks for the compliment. That was my daughter design." Suddenly the warm voice from behind nearly made her choke.

She turned her head back. That voice was from a middle age man who stood behind her. She could see he was quite friendly and from his way of speaking, she guessed that this watch belong to him.

First, MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEWYEAR

Second, it seems I enjoy reading more than writing my own story so it took me so long to finish this chapter.

By the way I think some of you might make a good guess who that man at the end was. ^^

I'll try my best to release next chapter before New year.

Anyway Enjoy HOLIDAY